Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work that we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets, here; https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974

This is a sort of creepy Thanksgiving tale, about my teenage Gay (and very hungry!) runaway Bryce Going, who has an unwelcome encounter with someone who does not want to serve him turkey! From my story “Dumpster Dive” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2023/11/16/dumpster-dive-with-friday-flash-fics-from-jeff-baker-november-17-2023/

I pulled my jacket tight around me as I walked down the small main street. There was a trash barrel right there. Sign on it telling people not to litter, I hated what I was thinking.

I glanced in the barrel and reached in, felt around through the newspaper, the empty pop and beer cans and felt a lump. I pulled out a wrapped-up half-eaten something with the logo of a burger place on the wrapper.

I unwrapped it, yeah, a burger that someone had taken a bite out of and then discarded it but it was still a burger.

In our next snippet, Bryce goes dumpster diving at the back of a closed Russian restaurant.

I pushed the lid open. It smelled like trash and food. It was about a third full of garbage and leavings from other people’s meals, people who hadn’t had to worry about where their next meals were coming from. I felt around and grabbed what felt like a chunk of ham or turkey.

Something grabbed my wrist.

We’ll leave him right there for now. I hope your Thanksgiving was stress and demon-free! Next week, more from that perfect Christmas present; a new anthology!—-jeff